Hi everyone, while the machine is busy crunching through our data set, i would like to prepare myself from the next step of the analysis, which is a region-wise analysis of the computed metrics by the freesurfer pipeline. Being a complete novice in the use of this software, i would like to know how do i go about doing the following:
1) With the parcellations already available in freesurfer, i would like to extract metrics (curvature, lgi, thickness) etc. for each label, and process them outside freesurfer (matlab, since i am more used to it). Is it possible to do this within freesurfer or without, i.e read these values on the pial/white matter/inflated surfaces, ans also extract ones corresponding to a particular label? 2) How do i go about generating a group average of the various maps that freesurfer generates (curvature/thickness/lgi) ? As i understand, the analysis is done entirely in the subject space. Can i apply a transformation to the generated surfaces for averaging? Or does it require a re-processing after registering/reslicing all the data to a common space? 3) I am still struggling with a proper colormap, which can bring out the structure in out data. I see very nice renderings in various publications, of data generated with freesurfer. Is it possible to tweak the colormap to get such a rendering?
Thanking you all in anticipation, sid.